DCTA News

CO Sanctuary Schools Summit | Conferencia de Escuelas Santuario
Our Brown students and school families are facing a rising wave of bullying, harassment, and traumatic family separations and emergencies as the new Administration carries out aggressive plans for immigration enforcement. How will we protect and support...

Living Wage and Other Proposals
Monday, April 17, 2017, 5pm
North High School
Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor
District to DCTA: We can’t afford a living wage
First-year teacher Kevlyn Walsh gave a passionate accounting to DPS officials last night of the challenges she faces as a teacher working...

“We can be proud as educators that we were a positive influence.”
Silvia Curiel-Torres, Peer Observer
Silvia Curiel-Torres has been an educator for 39 years – but she started rehearsing for the role long before she ever started teaching professionally. The childhood neighbors of a pint-sized Silvia...

Bargaining Update: DCTA Works to Pull DPS Into the 21st Century
Monday, April 3, 2017, 5pm
North High School
Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor
The DCTA Bargaining Team laid out a series of contract proposals to DPS representatives last night (April 3) that if enacted would effectively elevate...

End of Year Conversation Panel
Join Rise Up for a panel about your end of the year conversations, LEAP and your overall rating. Veteran teachers and LEAP aficionados will speak and answer your questions. All DCTA members are invited.
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LEAP
Monday, March 20, 2017, 5pm
North High School
Sandoval Lecture Hall (B243), 2nd Floor
In order for us to win a fair contract, DCTA members will have to show a great level of commitment and perseverance, because DPS will not change their stance on important issues, unless they...

16th Annual César Chávez Day March
Join DCTA as we march from the Regis University Chapel to the César Chávez Park to honor Chávez’s legacy as an educator, environmentalist, and a civil rights leader.
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DPS lies by omission.
DPS administration evasive and opaque: Bargaining in bad faith
On Monday night (March 13), DCTA and DPS met to negotiate Article 18 [Student Discipline] of the Master Agreement between the two entities. During this session, DCTA specifically called attention...

“My students have brought immeasurable joy into my life.”
Dana Berge, Pascual LeDoux Academy
As you enter Pascual LeDoux Academy on any given weekday morning, you might hear the familiar sounds of what sounds like morning announcements as little ones scamper down the school’s hallways. On a...